Writing humour

Children are always fascinated by humorous stories. It tickles their funny bone and makes them roll on the floor and laugh.
We thought of trying our hand at humour stories and a story-inspired poetry. The outcome was wonderful and an eye-openner for most of our kids; humour is difficult to put together.

Thanks to the hinting story-cubes, we were able to narrow down on a plot and write around it.

One such poem written by a 11 year old is praiseworthy -

MY  FUNNY POETRY

Stars falling on earth made the morning bad,

The people were so very sad,

Somebody’s magnet,

Didn’t remain a gadget,

It went crazy,

All non-living went frazy,

It attracted shooting stars,

It didn’t even spare racing cars,

Cosmic balance was disturbed,

Through nothing it could be curbed,

Lifeless started living,

For life they started craving,

Letters ran to their destination,

Without any arms or ammunition,

The letters the postman wanted to catch,

For him were no match,

Mobiles went dead,

So they went to bed,

Tired were also the aeroplanes,

So they gave their job for a while to the trains,

 Their wings started aching,

& the magnet became menacing,

Everyone closed their fridges,

To see the road themselves make bridges,

Everyone including the flea,

Saw bridges across the sea,

Hammers expressed,

But became depressed,

So they hammered the magnet down,

& humans again wore the crown!!!

 Rhyming was their clue and the humorous story we wrote before this poetry was the source/inspiration for the wonderful output.